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Fernando Benavides

Present Title & Affiliation

Primary Appointment

Associate Professor NTRA, Department of Carcinogenesis, Division of Basic Science Research, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, TX
Associate Member, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX

Dual/Joint/Adjunct Appointment

Associate Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Education & Training

Degree-Granting Education

1998 University of Buenos Aires, School of Veterinary Medicine, Buenos Aires, Argentina, PHD, Genetics
1986 University of Buenos Aires, School of Veterinary Medicine, Buenos Aires, Argentina, DVM, Veterinary Medicine

Board Certifications

7/2003 American Colleage of Laboratory Animals (ACLAM)

Experience/Service

Academic Appointments

Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 1/2005-9/2008

Selected Publications

Peer-Reviewed Original Research Articles
1. Rojas P, Benavides F, Blando J, Perez C, Cardenas K, Richie E, Knudsen ES, Johnson DG, Senderowicz AM, Rodriguez-Puebla ML, Conti CJ. Enhanced skin carcinogenesis and lack of thymus hyperplasia in transgenic mice expressing human cyclin D1b (CCND1b). Mol Carcinog 48(6):508-16, 6/2009. e-Pub 10/2008. PMID: 18942117.
2. Chen X, Schneider-Broussard R, Hollowell D, McArthur M, Jeter CR, Benavides F, DiGiovanni J, Tang DG. Abnormal differentiation, hyperplasia and embryonic/perinatal lethality in BK5-T/t transgenic mice. Differentiation 77(3):324-34, 3/2009. PMCID: PMC2680132.
3. Benavides F, Oberyszyn TM, Van Buskirk A, Kusewitt DF.. The hairless mouse in skin research. J Dermatol Sci 53(1):10-8, 1/2009. PMCID: PMC2646590.
4. de Cicco RL, Bassi DE, Benavides F, Conti CJ, Klein-Szanto AJ. Inhibition of proprotein convertases: Approaches to block squamous carcinoma development and progression. Mol Carcinog 46(8):654-9, 8/2007. PMID: 17440928.
5. Rojas P, Cadenas MB, Lin PC, Benavides F, Conti CJ, Rodriguez-Puebla ML. Cyclin D2 and cyclin D3 play opposite roles in mouse skin carcinogenesis. Oncogene 26(12):1723-30, 2007. PMID: 16983339.
6. Benavides F, Gomez G, Venables-Griffith A, Lambertz I, Flores M, Angel JM, Fuchs-Young R, Richie ER, Conti CJ. Differential susceptibility to chemically induced thymic lymphomas in SENCARB and SSIN inbred mice. Mol Carcinog 45(7):543-8, 7/2006. PMID: 16479612.
7. Fabris VT, Benavides F, Conti C, Merani S, Lanari C. Cytogenetic findings, Trp53 mutations, and hormone responsiveness in a medroxyprogesterone acetate induced murine breast cancer model. Cancer Genet Cytogenet 161(2):130-9, 9/2005. PMID: 16102583.
8. Kim E, Rundhaug JE, Benavides F, Yang P, Newman RA, Fischer SM. An antitumorigenic role for murine 8S-lipoxygenase in skin carcinogenesis. Oncogene 24(7):1174-87, 2/2005. PMID: 15558016.
9. Bourgade F, Montagutelli X, Bigbee C, Weiss A, Rigottier-Gois L, Conti CJ, Benavides F. Simple duplex fecal PCR assay that allows identification of false-negative results in Helicobacter sp.-infected mice. Comp Med 54(5):528-32, 10/2004. PMID: 15575366.
10. Amornphimoltham P, Sriuranpong V, Patel V, Benavides F, Conti CJ, Sauk J, Sausville EA, Molinolo AA, Gutkind JS. Persistent activation of the Akt pathway in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: a potential target for UCN-01. Clin Cancer Res 10(12 Pt 1):4029-37, 6/2004. PMID: 15217935.
11. Benavides F, Conti CJ, LaCava M, Flores M, Glasscock E, Sternik G, Gimenez-Conti IB, Johnston DA, Dunsford HA, Goldstein LS, Rodriguez LV. Loss of heterozygosity analysis of mouse pulmonary adenomas induced by coal tar. Environ Mol Mutagen 41(4):300-8, 2003. PMID: 12717785.
12. Benavides F, Zamisch M, Flores M, Campbell MR, Andrew SE, Angel JM, Licchesi J, Sternik G, Richie ER, Conti CJ. Application of inter-simple sequence repeat PCR to mouse models: assessment of genetic alterations in carcinogenesis. Genes Chromosomes Cancer 35(4):299-310, 12/2002. PMID: 12378524.
13. Stern MC, Benavides F, LaCava M, Conti CJ. Genetic analyses of mouse skin tumor progression susceptibility using SENCAR inbred derived strains. Mol Carcinog 35(1):13-20, 9/2002. PMID: 12203363.
14. Benavides F, Starost MF, Flores M, Gimenez-Conti IB, Guenet JL, Conti CJ. Impaired hair follicle morphogenesis and cycling with abnormal epidermal differentiation in nackt mice, a cathepsin L-deficient mutation. Am J Pathol 161(2):693-703, 8/2002. PMCID: PMC1850757.
15. Benavides F, Venables A, Poetschke Klug H, Glasscock E, Rudensky A, Gomez M, Martin Palenzuela N, Guenet JL, Richie ER, Conti CJ. The CD4 T cell-deficient mouse mutation nackt (nkt) involves a deletion in the cathepsin L (CtsI) gene. Immunogenetics 53(3):233-42, 4/2001. PMID: 11398968.

Book Chapters
1. Benavides F, Guenet JL. Genetically defined strains of laboratory rodents. In: Science and Technology of Laboratory Animals. SECAL: Spain, 2009.
2. Guenet JL, Benavides F. Quality control in laboratory rodents. In: Molecular Diagnostics, Second. Ed(s) Patrinos GP, Ansorage W. Elsevier: Netherlands, 2009.
3. Guenet JL, Benavides F. Quality control in laboratory rodents. In: Molecular Diagnostics. Elsevier, 2005.

Books (edited and written)
1. Conti, C, Benavides F, Gimenez-Conti I, Frijhoff A (Eds). Atlas of Laboratory Mouse Histology. In: Histopages,Texas, USA, 2005.
2. Benavides F, Guenet JL. Ed(s) Benavides F, Guenet JL. Manual of Laboratory Rodents Genetics (Spanish). In: Laboratory Animals Ltd. SECAL and Universidad de Alcala, 2003.

Letters to the Editor
1. Benavides F, Perez C, Blando J, Guenet JL, Conti CJ. The radiation-induced nackt (nkt) allele is a loss-of-function mutation of the mouse cathepsin L gene. J Immunol 176(2):702-3, 1/2006. PMID: 16393949.

Grant & Contract Support

Title: Pilot Project Grant. Center for Research on Environmental Disease (CRED)
Funding Source: NIEHS
Role: Principal Investigator
Duration: 7/1/2002 - 6/30/2003

Last updated: 8/7/2009